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The U.S.’s shameful silence on Brazil: The insane hypocrisy of the right-wing coup can’t be exaggerated or ignored

By Ben Norton - WEDNESDAY, JUN 1, 2016 11:35 AM CDT

Corrupt right-wing ousted non-corrupt left-wing to prevent investigation into corruption — with tacit U.S. support

The absurd political developments unfolding in Brazil sound like they were directly lifted from an outlandish Hollywood film.

A slow-motion coup is presently being carried out in the fifth-most populated country, and the layers of hypocrisy pile on and on like an onion.

The latest development: the anticorruption minister in Brazil’s new coup regime was forced to resign on Monday after a leaked secret recording proves he was actively trying to prevent an investigation into actual corruption that he and the coup leadership were involved in.

Yes, that’s right, for emphasis: the “minister of transparency” in Brazil’s interim government helped carry out a coup on false corruption allegations in order to prevent an investigation into actual corruption he is a part of.

For context, then, here is a brief summary of the ludicrousness going on in Brazil:

Corrupt right-wing politicians, who are presently being investigated for criminal corruption, carried out a congressional coup against the democratically elected left-wing president (Dilma Roussef) — who has never been charged with a crime and who is herself one of the few politicians not implicated in corruption — by pushing for an impeachment trial based on trumped-up allegations of fiscal mismanagement — a non-impeachable, non-criminal offense.

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Brazilian oligarchs, Greenwald added, are trying to remove “from power a moderately left-wing government that won four straight elections in the name of representing the country’s poor, and are literally handing control over the Brazilian economy (the world’s seventh largest) to Goldman Sachs and bank industry lobbyists.”

Read more:
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/01/the_u_s_s_shameful_silence_on_brazil_the_insane_hypocrisy_of_the_right_wing_coup_cant_be_exaggerated_or_ignored/